Building the Perfect Cassandra Test Environment
A month back, one of our clients asked us to set up 15 individual single-node Cassandra instances, each of which would live in 64MB of RAM and each of…
Why we chose to invest in client-side search applications
On a recent enterprise search project we were tasked with taking over six million documents and making them searchable by the general public, all within a very short development…
SolrCloud as a Windows Service
Want to setup a simple solrCloud network on Windows? If you are just running a couple nodes and intend to run the embedded ZooKeeper heres how to get it…
Instant Search with Solr and AngularJS
Previously, we gave an example of a super simple search results widget that utilized jsonp and AngularJS. Since then, we’ve polished our Angular skills quite a bit. Enough so,…
Semantic Search with Solr and Python Numpy
Built upon Lucene, Solr provides fast, highly scalable, and easily maintainable full-text search capabilities. However, under the hood, Solr is really just a sophisticated token-matching engine. Whats missing? –…
Four reasons we’re really excited about FoundationDB
As you might have heard, FoundationDB became publicly available this week. As we’ve discussed in the past, we’re very excited here at OpenSource Connections about this emerging database. After…
Name Search in Solr
Remember the good ole days of “Alpha by Author”? Searching names is a pretty common requirement for many applications. Searching by book authors, for example, is a pretty crucial…
Two Solr Training Courses Coming to Charlottesville in October
Coming this October, OpenSource Connections, in partnership with LucidWorks, is pleased to present two separate Solr training courses. Read on for all the details! Solr Unleashed- October 21-22 Solr…
OSC welcomes you to the Friday after 12 Hack-and-Tell
For the past several months OpenSource Connections headquarters has served as an underground, no-cost coworking hot spot, and weve had such a good time with it that weve decided…
Conference Recap: Defcon
Last week I went to Defcon, the premiere security conference that attracted 15,000 security experts and Will Smith to Las Vegas. Here are a few lessons I learned hanging…
Creating a Solr <search> HTML element with AngularJS!
Note: The following post is fantastic… but this one is about the same topic and is even better. \n\n Of late weve been playing around with EmberJS for putting…
Understanding How CQL3 Maps to Cassandra’s Internal Data Structure: Sets, Lists, and Maps
Refer to my previous post for more in depth details into what Im doing here. This is just a quick reference regarding how Cassandra sets, lists, and maps work…